Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

.......... Hence your last line, which I take to mean that Christmas and Passover and Ramadan and Shivarathri—and the Darwin Bicentennial!—are as much yours as mine and as much mine as yours, that all of it is part of our common human inheritance. So Merry Christmas, James, to you and your family from me and mine. What the heck, let’s go further, like Santa Claus: “Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”
Warmly, Rick


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